It’s one thing to design in the pristine starchiness of a laboratory;
it’s altogether another to create from the tangible grasp of bitter or
beautiful experience. Experience is about reality and truth. Experience
can also give you the motivation to do something about it, because when
you get your hands muddy, you find so much that need changing and needs
you to change it.

‘The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don’t have
access to most of human experience, and if you don’t have access to experience,
then you’re not going to be able to think properly.’

‘We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in
it--and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot
stove lid. She will never sit on a hot stove lid again—and that is well;
but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.’